Judge orders newspaper to publish apology to Niall Mellon

A Judge has found that philanthropist Niall Mellon was defamed by a daily newspaper in a report claiming that he had sacked a personal assistant shortly before she was due to give birth.

Judge Alison Lindsay at the Circuit Civil Court ordered that the publishers of the Irish Daily Mail, Associated Newspapers Ltd publish a correction and apology to Mr Mellon after finding that he had been defamed in an article that appeared in March last year which reported a claim by Helen O'Connor that she had been dismissed after asking him for financial help.